Sheeeesh. I don't know what it is with people and numerous cars. Next door, three cars, one on their drive. Next door but one, two cars plus a works van, across the road, a car each plus their son has just passed so another car there. A few doors down, one car plus a taxi that gets parked almost on a corner.Everyone else has at least one car. It's a tiny little narrow avenue. It's like doing a slalom taking the dog out cos I can't walk on the pavement most of the time.Especially on bin day.
Kids started back to school this morning and the cars were all running their engines to warm them in the frost. I felt like shouting "its ok, I'm asthmatic. I love a lung full of fumes, you sit in your car safe " Why can't they walk to school anyhow? It's a mile, they won't bloody melt or perish in it.
I'm not anti car at all but I am anti multiple car and anti selfish parking.
The bod whose car has been driving us mad has 2 Range Rovers, a Jag estate, a 20 seater bus, a truck that can carry a car,2 MPVs, and a Passat estate with a faulty alarm. He parks them all over the place, and now the Passat in is the next street!
A new student halls of residence (200 beds) nearby has a rule of NO CARS. But they just park their cars in all the neighbouring streets.
Next door have threes cars. One goes on their drive, but the others go in the road.
On a tight, narrow bend, with limited visibility, due to a high hedge.
Hope nobody ever needs an ambulance or fire engine on the quick.
We have a sign on our gate that says Please do not park. Access needed at all times. Most just ignore it but I swear, if an ambulance can't get in quickly for Chris because of these cars, I will use his dad's knocking stick on their precious pieces of metal.
It's the noise too. When there are three cars with one on the drive, they have to move two to get the third out in a morning. But that means disturbing the other two next door if next door has left them enough room to get out. What a palaver.
I think the time has come for parking permits maybe.
The fire brigade just physically lift the cars and move them out of the way. Wastes valuable time, though.
When our road was built, not many people had cars and, though the road's quite narrow, the corners have turning bays, from when buses ran down here (Hard to believe, that).
'course, people now treat those as parking bays and, even though Plod's been down, giving them all tickets, the biggerz still park in them. Parking on a corner is illegal and fucking dangerous!!
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Good :)
The uni students are back, so every street around here is in logjam.
It's bin day here and the pillocks are on the corneR, forcing me in the middle of the road into a blind spot . They have left about six inch of pavement to get past. Bloody idiots.
Our problem is the idiots at the local ground maintenance company park 6 cars in the residents parking area every day, and they don't even do our ground maintenance since they lost the contract 2 years ago
cars are always on pavements here too, and sometimes i have to push a side-by-side double buggy.
it's chaos >:(
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/902636/Pavement-parking-fine-penalty-points-Sutton-Coldfield
Here in Coventry the council voted AGAINST introducing fines for pavement parking
I don't know how they can enforce it in quiet areas unless they have cctv . Seems to me that some round here never actually walk anywhere and have no idea of how selfish they are. Or maybe they are just bloody selfish and don't care as long as their cars have a spot to park.
We have a minicab taxi owner who does his best to park outside any house except his own cos his wife parks directly outside their house on the pavement with her car door outside her gate. So far, I've managed to stop him parking outside ours by sending the dog out. The bloke is Asian and terrified of our dog. Good. It's like road wars out there. If you shut the blinds, a bloody car appears outside.
The local hospital now has free parking, but with many more slots set aside for hospital staff as those arriving for their shift have to have a parking space that the ongoing staff haven't vacated yet.
Total pandemonium.
Cars queuing to get into all 3 main car parks are blocking all routes around the site.
It took me 25 minutes to bypass one queue, made even worse by 2 buses parked up. Total distance 30 metres. :grumpy:
Even the routes to the ER were log-jammed in both directions.
Wythenshaw and Trafford General have always been free, which is kinda groovy.
Always a bugger to get parked, though, even with a blue badge.
I s'pose hospital car parks would have to be HUGE, to match demand. Odd that the hospitals I've visited are never anywhere ear a station. They've build a Metro line to Wythenshaw, but it's a hell of a way from the hospital and it's OK from Manchester, but from here, we'd have to go into the city and back out, again.
It's only a ten minute drive...
There is a "free" park and ride bus to the hospital. The trouble is the car park fills with office and shop workers by 8:30 every morning, and you still have to pay the parking fee. And queuing traffic backs onto the main dual carriageway into the city, and that has caused loads of accidents already.
Those buses get to drive along what was the hard shoulder at 50mph, so woe betide anyone that breaks down...
Salford Hope had three huge car parks and a pick up point for taxis and cars. But at visiting times, it was horrendous with the roads gridlocked as it's car had to go through ticket barriers before being directed to a car park. More and more people then went earlier and so the gridlock was longer .
Tempers used to flare at Bolton as there is so little space. Cars are cruising round just wait ing for someone to leave. There also seems to be a lot more staff parking areas than public. That too causes problems . Yep staff need to park but Joe public are now trying to park there.
The road is being re surfaced just one house away from me. It been going on all week. With temporary traffic lights , the cars who are fed up waiting have been going down or up our small avenue.
Anyhow, a workman came and put a few cones and warning barrier just a few feet from my gate to stop them using our stretch of road.
Yep, an Asian man in full Friday get up was moving the cones putting them outside our gate because he was blocked in. He had moved the barrier and drove round it only to find himself with a main road being dug up and nowhere to go. . The dog went mental as I asked him what he was doing. He was smiling at me as his wife reversed down the street with God knows how many kids in the car. Told him he was an idiot. Those are warning signs, how could he not see the massive lorries digging away! Neighbours came out to give him a mouthful. I'm just sorry I didn't have my phone on me.
I tell you. Who sees a road sign and decides to move it?
Quote from: El on August 03, 2018, 12:53:30 PM
The road is being re surfaced just one house away from me. It been going on all week. With temporary traffic lights , the cars who are fed up waiting have been going down or up our small avenue.
Anyhow, a workman came and put a few cones and warning barrier just a few feet from my gate to stop them using our stretch of road.
Yep, an Asian man in full Friday get up was moving the cones putting them outside our gate because he was blocked in. He had moved the barrier and drove round it only to find himself with a main road being dug up and nowhere to go. . The dog went mental as I asked him what he was doing. He was smiling at me as his wife reversed down the street with God knows how many kids in the car. Told him he was an idiot. Those are warning signs, how could he not see the massive lorries digging away! Neighbours came out to give him a mouthful. I'm just sorry I didn't have my phone on me.
I tell you. Who sees a road sign and decides to move it?
A self entitled prat
Quote from: El on August 03, 2018, 12:53:30 PM
I tell you. Who sees a road sign and decides to move it?
Some who consider our laws not applicable to them.
I was gobsmacked. Not only at the idiot man and how he was trying desperately to be quiet about shifting the cones. His face when my dog roared at him was a picture...caught red handed!
It was his wife reversing at speed onto another a cul de sac with kids playing there. Eegits.
This morning was pouring down as I took the dog at 8 for her run. It is also bin day for recycle bins.
So I get past nine bins and three cars to cross the road and I'm stuck because for at least 20ft, there are two taxi minibuses and a car all on the pavement with bins shoves in the spaces between.
So I take my life in my hands to go on the road and round the corner (total blind spot) and I still can't get on the pavement for cars and bins.
Took her again at 10 for a lead walk round the block and they are still there but this time the bin men couldn't get past. They manually took the bins down the avenue , emptied them and left them all over the place.
They should have bloody rammed the minibuses.
Noticed a new annoyance over the last few weeks. There are bins left out a good few days after bin day. Right on the paving. Then I noticed that they are nearly always just before a drop kerb where there is a driveway.
Anyway, I was telly his lordship what a pain it is getting past these bins, what lazy swines don't take their bins in etc.
Oh he said, that's to stop cars mounting the paving through their drop kerbs and pavement parking.
Good! I'd rather try and get past a bin than a car and worse than that a bloody big white van or taxi.
There was a spate of fines for people that left their bins out too long, or put them out too early. Then it all stopped when the council got bored. Or they laid-off the people doing the checks. Probably the latter.
It was a nightmare this morning .pouring rain and cars plus vans nose to tail. Only two cars on drives and I think that's because they were hemmed in.
The police are going door-to-door after someone STUCK a notice to a student's car windscreen. Something like "This is my daughter's space, DO NOT PARK HERE AGAIN!"
I was told it could be classed as criminal damage.
I told them our daughter cannot drive.